Una rosa sola (Edición mexicana)

Un saxofonista de jazz, que se gana la vida en una empresa de dudoso capital internacional, protagoniza esta novela generacional en la España de los años sesenta. Tres historias de amor, de muy distinto tono, se entrelazan con los sucesos más relevantes del final de la dictadura. Son momentos de gran agitación estudiantil, cuyas manifestaciones contra la brutalidad del franquismo se convierten en la versión española de los movimientos contestatarios que se daban en el resto de Europa y América. En suma, la preparación de la democracia, en unas circunstancias extremadamente difíciles. ...

The hero is William, son of an Irish painter who committed suicide and burned his paintings. Only one survived, sold to a poet, and William travels to buy it back. In this way he meets the poet's daughter, Isabel, married for 24 hours and unhappy.

The highly-anticipated sequel to Sunday Times bestseller The Black Book ___________________________ Detective Billy Harney exposes an evil lurking deep within his city - but it also brings his own past demons to light... To Billy Harney, the newest member of Chicago PD's elite strike force, getting shot in the head, stalked by a state's attorney, and accused of murder by his fellow cops is all part of breaking a case. So, when a drive-by shooting on the Chicago's West Side turns political, he doesn't shy away from leading the investigation. As the easy answers prove to be the wrong ones,...

In a large city in the north of Africa, a public functionary, chief of the rodent extermination department, fights against the millions of rats that threaten the city. Solitary, obsessive, and so sensitive it borders on paranoia, he devotes himself to his job in exemplary fashion. His life passes by under an extreme order; he does not leave anything to chance, and has the compulsive habit of writing down all his intimate reflections and secrets on small pieces of paper. This bitingly funny novel was a piercing critique on the author's part of a government suspicious of even the slightest hint ...